CHAPTER 69 NO NEED FOR THE EAST WIND

Ge Liang went all the way down to Exian and met the Jiangdong fleet led by Zhou Yu. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhou Yu asked Ge Liang about the current battle situation. Ge Liang explained that Jiangling was now probably besieged, and the vanguard of Cao Cao's navy had just suffered a setback at Jianghankou, but Guan Yu had few troops, and had retreated to the direction of Jiangling upstream while fighting, and said that he hoped that Cao Cao's navy would enter the Yangtze River and attack Jiangdong sailors on both sides.

"So we should wait a few more days here?" Zhou Yu opened the map, "Where does Zhuge Junshi want to let Cao Jun advance?" ”

Ge Liang saw a veteran standing behind Zhou Yu with more than half of his hair and beard, and thought to himself that this should be Huang Gai, I wonder if he will offer another trick to attack with fire? It's a pity that it's the end of October in the lunar calendar, and there shouldn't be a southeast wind.

Zhou Yu saw Ge Liang's hair and asked, "Strategist, hasn't it been determined yet?" ”

Ge Liang came back to his senses, walked to the map and looked at it carefully for a while, and said to Zhou Yu: "We plan to retreat all the way to the Baqiu area. ”

"Oh," Zhou Yu roughly gestured on the map, "retreat so far?" If you retreat, you will retreat directly to Gangneung. ”

Ge Liang already had an idea, and decided to take the credit for Huang Gai's fire attack on his head, pointing to the map and explaining to Zhou Yu: "General Zhou, please see, the Yangtze River starts from the Jiangling section, the river channel begins to turn southeast and down to Baqiu, and from Dongting Lake it begins to turn around and go north, forming a large 'V' shaped trend ......"

Zhou Yu saw it, but he didn't understand a little: "What is Weixing?" ”

What a hassle! Ge Liang patted his head and paddled along the Yangtze River channel on the map with his hand: "After the Yangtze River reaches Dongting Lake, it turns from northwest to southeast to northeast, that is to say, if Cao Cao's navy stays in this water, whether it is our navy or the navy pursuing behind them, it will be in their northerly direction, right?" ”

Zhou Yu nodded: "That's true, what is the meaning of the military advisor doing this?" ”

"Cao Cao's navy has reached a total of seventy or eighty thousand, and our general Guan is now commanding fifteen thousand, and if the Jiangdong navy excludes the Zijing department that should be used as the queen, it should be more than twenty thousand, right? In this way, we only have a total of 40,000 people, and we want to be inferior to Cao Cao's army. Although the Jiangdong Navy is brave and good at fighting, if you have to fight hard with them, even if you win, your own losses will be not small. Ge Liang looked at Huang Gai again, do you know what this means?

Huang Gai immediately thought of a fire attack as soon as he hinted at it, and said to Zhou Yu: "General Zhou, Cao Cao is powerful, I think Zhuge Junshi means that if we are all in the north of them, we can take advantage of the strong north wind and set fire to Cao's ships." ”

Zhou Yu slapped the case several times, and praised it repeatedly: "Wonderful, Zhuge Junshi's strategy is really wonderful!" ”

Ge Liang said modestly: "See the smile and laugh." "I was so happy in my heart, I just plagiarized the ready-made things recorded in the history books and published them in advance, even if it was a clever plan to cry ghosts and gods! Zhuge was really cool afterwards, Zhou Yu and Huang Gai, who were robbed of their credit, still have to worship Lao Tzu, it's really cool!

"However," Zhou Yu thought after all, it was still not that simple, "once the front ship catches fire, the ships behind will disperse in time, and the fire attack effect on the river surface will not have much effect." ”

This is not difficult for me, Ge Liang has long been familiar with it: "Most of Cao Cao's naval army came from the north, and he used to dig a Xuanwu pool for training when he was in Yecheng. The lake is still water, how can it be compared to the turbulent flow of the Yangtze River. I knew that once they were stationed on the ship to rest, they must have locked the ship together with large chains and planks, otherwise the sailors would not have been able to sleep. ”

This is true, from the skirmish in Jianghankou two days earlier, Ge Liang found that Cao's ships really had large iron chains and chain piles, and the swaying figures of many of their sergeants at that time were still clearly shaking in front of his eyes.

Zhou Yu and his subordinates looked at each other a few times, this opportunity was indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Ge Liang also added: "I'm afraid that when the time comes, Cao Jun will be vigilant, and it will be difficult for the fireboat to get close." As he spoke, he looked at Huang Gai again.

Huang Gai didn't expect it, why did you, Liu Bei's military advisor, keep staring at me as an old man? If you have something to say, you can say it clearly, as if I have some personal relationship with you.

Seeing that Zhou Yu and his generals were thinking about it, Ge Liang stopped selling it, and said to Zhou Yu: "I still have a personal matter that I want to ask General Zhou Tie for a favor, I don't know if I can borrow a step to speak." ”

Zhou Yu understood and followed Ge Liang to the bow of the boat.

Ge Liang said softly: "If there is one person who pretends to surrender to Cao Cao and approaches Cao's army in the name of surrendering the army, he should be able to take it by surprise." ”

Zhou Yu said: "This person can't be specified, he must go voluntarily." ”

Ge Liang was about to give Zhou Yu a thumbs up, but temporarily remembered that something was wrong, shook the goose feather fan in his hand, and said to Zhou Yu: "There are many loyal people in Jiangdong, there are many such people, and someone should take the initiative to propose it to the general after a while." ”

Zhou Yu nodded, he still knew more about his subordinates, and remembered a question again, and asked Ge Liang: "Just like that, in order to let Cao Jun rest assured that he is going up the Yangtze River, does our Jiangdong fleet still need to retreat first?" ”

Hearing this, Ge Liang felt that Zhou Yu was still Zhou Yu in the end, and people immediately thought about it comprehensively, and he had just thought of plagiarism, and he hadn't discussed it with Guan Yu and them, and now he had to rush back.

Ge Liang hugged his fists to Zhou Yu and saluted during the march: "General Zhou is thoughtful, I will go back here to arrange relevant matters with General Guan first, and when the time comes, we will set fire to the Cao army together on the night when the wind rises." ”

Zhou Yu was very puzzled by Ge Liang's comings and goings: "Haven't the military division and General Guan made arrangements yet?" ”

"Ah, I thought of it because General Zhou said just now that I had to withdraw one after another." Ge Liang defended, "I'm going back to urge General Guan to speed up the retreat, so that Cao's army can enter the Baqiu River as soon as possible, so that General Zhou can also take advantage of his departure to enter Jiangxia as soon as possible to hold the mouth of the two rivers." ”

Zhou Yu clenched his fists and saluted back: "Then the military advisor, please hurry back as soon as possible." ”

Ge Liang had one more thing, and said to Zhou Yu: "Please prepare a piece of paper and ink for me." ”

Zhou Yu brought Ge Liang to the table in the cabin: "What else does the military advisor have to explain?" ”

Ge Liang stretched out his thumb and dipped it in ink, stamped a handprint on the paper, and handed it to Zhou Yu: "Since the two families have agreed, I won't come in person next time." General Zhou is requested to put away this fingerprint, and then use the fingerprint to identify our envoy who came to contact. I'm afraid that signatures can be easily impersonated. "In fact, it's just that the brush words are invisible.

"It's still prudent for the military advisor." Zhou Yu carefully put away the paper.

Ge Liang said goodbye to Zhou Yu and got off the boat. The sergeant led the horse. Ge Liang couldn't help but touch his buttocks, this horse has been riding in the past few days, and the egg hurts terribly!